"Investigation". The inspector of Scotland Yard takes part in investigation of strange thing : dead bodies disappear from the morgues of rural hospitals in a neighborhood of London. The circumstances of crimes are folded thus, as if dead people found ability to move some miracle."Rheum". A senescent unlucky astronaut-person so not carrying out the dream about flight on Mars participates in a dangerous experiment, to expose series of mysterious murders on the Italian resort. Lost on a carelessness and suicides, men middle-aged, it would seem, nothing links - for them different habits and predilections, appearance, job. But some conformity to law must exist however - and former astronaut, agent under a protection, step by step repeats the way of one of the last victims from Naples to Rome, understanding that death breathes to him in the back of head.